Yes, I did get BOTH of your e-mails last week. It gave me a pretty good laugh. I'm glad that all is well at home though. That's great that Wilder is stepping up to the plate and and taking some initiative! I'm happy for him J I'm so happy that you got my letter! I didn't want to tell you I was mailing it, but I caved. Haha, glad that you liked it. I thought about you a lot this week, especially yesterday on your birthday! I even wrote “¡Feliz cumpleanos Madré!” in my planner, and I sketched the Madrid Temple in my notes section.

Tell Shane to send me a letter or e-mail me! It'd be nice to hear from him, I want to hear from Wilder too… But I am going to send him a letter today of a poem President Sitterud told to me the other day, I could just send it to him over email but it'd be cooler if I hand wrote it out and sent it to him in the mail. The pony express is fun… Hand written letters are golden. I'm glad that you understand that. About the money, that $50-something US dollars was a €40 withdrawal I made. That's the best way to use personal funds, by withdrawing it instead of running the card, that's what I've heard anyway. And that $16 one was for the metro ticket I bought, I'll be sure to get more photos of the metro for you, we're probably taking the metro today if we decide to go anywhere, we have to go to the mall to get more stamps for more letters.

The past couple of weeks I've been doing my endowment sessions in the temple in Spanish, I understand everything that is going on, the gift of tongues is real! My Spanish is coming along, not quite as good as I would have hoped but it's a work in progress, just need to be patient with myself and it'll all be well! I learn more and more each and every day, I find myself saying words I didn't even know that I knew. Pretty cool, in the words of Andy Jones, “Just have to believe in the magic”.

That picture you sent me of Isaias Fuentes and his wife was beautiful! I'm so happy for him! What a good guy, I look up to him in many ways! In the photos I sent you… The BWIN red and white logo is the Sponsor for the REALMADRID fútbol team here, we were in the press room when that photo was taken, the blonde elder was Elder Skousen, he's in my district, he's from Mesa Arizona. Good guy. And in the metro, the 3 elders with me were my companion, Elder Lloyd, Elder Bob Dansie (he knows Alyssa Smith, Mary´s sister) and probably Elder Skousen again, I can't remember.

Still hate fish, we had swordfish twice this week… That's all I have to say about that.

Congrats to Evan Marshall on his baptism… That's wonderful. Tell Brice to send me a letter and that he hasn't received anything from me yet because I don't have his address!

Gotta get running pretty soon here. But to answer your question, a mission is split up into zones, and those zones are split up into districts.

I love you Mom, tell the family I love them as well and tell everyone to send me letters!! J I love you so so much. The mission is great, this is such a wonderful opportunity to show The Lord how much I love him!

Sorry I missed a couple of your questions last week, everything was so crazy last week because it was the first time the missionaries here at the MTC had the opportunity to email home so they were pretty strict on the whole 30 min time limit and I was just all over the place, today's a lot better so I will be sure to answer all you ask.

No I did not forget anything important... I have everything, the only thing I wish I would have brought more of was a ton of candy... The only candy I've had here in Spain was a chocolate bar (ironic I know) but it was GLORIOUS to eat. The food here at the MTC has been pretty rough, I've seen more fish in the last two weeks that I've ever seen in my life, that's how it feels anyway. And I'm pretty sure that they don't even know how to prepare fish... The skin is still on it, I got a plate full of fish two nights ago and I could have sworn that it was fresh out of the water. Bones were still in it and it was super scaly. Tough situation. I conquered it though, but throwing it into the garbage can. I've also had to blessed opportunity to eat Squid and Octopus twice this week, which wasn't good at all. Sometime I wish they would just let me eat shrimp or something (note the ridiculous amount of sarcasm)... Last night we had a hamburger.... which wasn't really hamburger, more like a spam burger, but I was hungry so I blew it up with ketchup (which isn't really ketchup) and lettuce. It was decent. We're going to the mall later today and word on the street is that there's a Burger King there.... I'm thinking a Whopper Jr. no onion add cheese :) Probably two of them.

To answer Aunt Julie's question, YES! Anyone can email me, but I'd much prefer people send me snail mail because I won't have enough time to reply to all of the emails! I can reply to all of the letters I get through the real mail. So tell everyone to send me letters through the mail services por favor.

Spanish is coming along well, I've still got a lot of work to do but I'm confident that I will be ready for the mission field 3 weeks from now.... CAN'T WAIT!! I'm accidentally saying all of my prayers in Spanish, then I end up saying an extra prayer in English because I don't know how to adequately explain my thoughts and feelings in Spanish yet, we'll get there though :)

I'm glad that all is going well at home, I can imagine your panic when Anne bought all of those games, just glad it wasn't me. Good that Wilder is still working at that stick, it will come.... Check the tire on it, the front right may be balding out, just a heads up, I forgot to check before I took off.

I haven't talked to Wyatt in a while so I will be sure to send him an email today before I log off, I miss him a lot! I miss everyone so much! That's cool that Dr. Cope sent you that too, I haven't had the chance to read what you sent me but I kind got a glimpse of it. Elder Easton and I found out last week that he and I had the same Doctor, we rejoiced and hugged and laughed.... Haha!

We went to Puerta del Sol last week. It´s the place I have all of the pictures of on facebook... It was AMAZING!!! My cover photo, the one with the Rolex store, I almost got an identical picture of it while we were on the bus driving by. I got loads of pictures, I'll be sure to mail the SD card to you as soon as I'm out of the MTC.

I've got to get going now.... Oh by the way, I haven't received any package from you yet, that's dependent on whether you sent it to the Mission Home or the MTC.... ;) Oh well the mail is pretty reliable so I will get it either way.

I love you SO SO SO SO much and I miss you more than words can explain.